Chinese New Year in Hong Kong

CYN is the main holiday where everybody goes home for a fortnight. The BBC describes it as the biggest mass migration in the world.Everybody decoates their home with something like a Xmas tree, either a peach tree in bloom or and orange tree with fruit and lots of red money envelopes and bows decorating them. Everything closes and most restaurants and a fair few shops are shut. On the second day there is a big parade. OK but not Carnival, and on the third day there is huge firework display in the harbour. We had come to be here for the fireworks and had booked a harbour cruise with dinner to see it and were not disappointed.

Otherwise Hong Kong has been doing its best to kill me. We arrived on a relatively short overnight flight and were not surprised that I was slightly wheezy from the plane and then I presumed from the airconditioning in the hotel but it just seemed to get worse and worse. I started lying on the bed at 9am friday and it was only 7.30 am saturday that we realised that although I'd checked the pillows for feathers and found them to be foam the duvet was feather. Also when we got the maid to change it there was another thinner duvet under the bottom sheet with feathers. The upshot was that not only did I have a mega, mega asthma attack that wasn't responding to inhalers and left me coughing up blood but one of those total allergy fits I have with vomiting and diarrhea and headaches etc etc. The lady came and was lovely about taking it all away and substituting blankets but  then I was not very brilliant last night and just had to stop writing this with a major asthma/vomit attack and Beloved had the sense to look at the bedding and somebody had put back the under blanket quilt so little wonder I'm not getting over it as quickly as I think.  Once I've had a bad fit any little thing which usually I can stand may set me off, so no spicy food, no passing somebody smoking, I had to leave a bar the other night even though I was inside and the person smoking was in the street and no attempt to go up hills of which Hong Kong has a few.